36 Md. App. 502 - Cross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2017
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McCandless v. United States · 5 Md. App. 450 - Williams v. State · 9 Md. App. 15 - Metz v. State · Brewer v. Mele · Jordan v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule at the common law seems to have been ... that prior to trial the prosecutor has the absolute uncontrolled power to enter a nolle prosequi; that after the empaneling of the jury until the return of a verdict the power is subject to the control of the court since it may not be used at that time to the prejudice of the defendant; and that following the return of the verdict the uncontrolled power of the prosecutor to enter a nolle revives and continues until such time as judgment is entered and sentence imposed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Simms“The exceptions permitting evidence of collateral crimes and charges to be admissible against an accused are recognized as follows: the evidence is admissible if it tends to establish (1) motive; (2) intent; (3) the absence of mistake or accident; (4) a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the others; and (5) the identity of the person charged with the commission of the crime on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor can we agree with the State that the Buffington crime tends to establish “a common scheme or plan.” The mere practice of backing a getaway car up to a premises to be burglarized does not, in our judgment, constitute so unusual a modus operandi that it could be labeled the “signature” of a particular criminal so as to establish his identity. [ 36 Md. App. at 521 , 374 A. 2d at 631 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cross v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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